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Niasite and johanngeorgenstadtite, Ni2+4.5(AsO4)3 dimorphs from Johanngeorgenstadt, Germany
Mineral Sciences Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
Barbara P. Nash
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, Utah 84112, USA
Jakub Plášil
Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Na Slovance 1999/2, 18221 Prague 8,
Czech Republic
Jason B. Smith
2148 McClintock Rd., Charlotte, NC 28205, USA
Mark N. Feinglos
formerly at: Duke Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
deceased
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Christian Rewitzer, Rupert Hochleitner, Ian E. Grey, Anthony R. Kampf, Stephanie Boer, and Colin M. MacRae
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 805–812, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-805-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-805-2023, 2023
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Ian E. Grey, Erich Keck, Anthony R. Kampf, Colin M. MacRae, Robert W. Gable, William G. Mumme, Nicholas C. Wilson, Alexander M. Glenn, and Cameron Davidson
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 635–643, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-635-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-635-2023, 2023
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Ian E. Grey, Rupert Hochleitner, Christian Rewitzer, Anthony R. Kampf, Colin M. MacRae, Robert W. Gable, William G. Mumme, Erich Keck, and Cameron Davidson
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 189–197, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-189-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-189-2023, 2023
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Pleysteinite has been approved as a new mineral species, and we describe here the characterisation of the mineral and its relationship to related minerals benyacarite, paulkerrite and mantienneite. The characterisation includes the determination and refinement of the crystal structure, electron microprobe analyses, optical properties and interpretation of its Raman spectrum.
Rupert Hochleitner, Christian Rewitzer, Ian E. Grey, William G. Mumme, Colin M. MacRae, Anthony R. Kampf, Erich Keck, Robert W. Gable, and Alexander M. Glenn
Eur. J. Mineral., 35, 95–103, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-95-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-95-2023, 2023
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The paper gives a characterisation of the new mineral species, whiteite-(CaMnFe), which has recently been approved as a new mineral (proposal IMA2022-077). The study included a single-crystal structure refinement that, when combined with electron microprobe analyses, confirmed that the mineral was a new member of the whiteite subgroup of the jahnsite group of minerals. Relationships between the crystal structure and the unit-cell parameters for the whiteite-subgroup minerals are discussed.
Peter Elliott, Ian E. Grey, William G. Mumme, Colin M. MacRae, and Anthony R. Kampf
Eur. J. Mineral., 34, 375–383, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-375-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-34-375-2022, 2022
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This paper describes the characterisation of a new mineral from a South Australian phosphate quarry. The characterisation included chemical analyses, infrared spectroscopy, and a determination and refinement of the crystal structure. The results showed that the mineral has a unique crystal chemistry, but it is closely related to the well-known phosphate mineral crandallite.
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A reinvestigation of angastonite from the type locality has shown that it is a mixture of crystalline phases and an amorphous phase, with the published formula corresponding to the amorphous phase. A redefinition proposal for angastonite as an amorphous mineral was approved by the IMA CNMNC. Our study showed how the amorphous phase formed and how it progressively recrystallises as new crandallite-related minerals.
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